My lower back has been absolutely killing me today. Does anyone know of any remedies I could try to address it? I’m trying an ice pack and fixing my sitting posture right now, will be sleeping on my side to relieve pressure on it tonight, but is there anything else I could attempt?
I like to do yoga, not like full-on sweaty, get the mat out, kind of yoga, more like stretching but some of the stretches are yoga poses so if you like doing regular stretches then yoga may interest you.
That being said, I like to call them stretches because they’re fast and they help with my back pain as well as with my mood. The mood part is subjective but I’ve seen some interesting science regarding stretching regularly and mood regulation.
Things like touching your toes, sitting down and doing the same, or other poses like in this video:
https://youtu.be/2eA2Koq6pTI
Not gonna promise anything but getting up and really, really stretching my muscles loose, even just my arms, helps with pain. Much of my pain may be psychosomatic but I did a lot of factory/foundry work and the back pain is definitely setting in.